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Equipped with automatic weapons hijacked from Communist arms shipments that had been flooding through the Sudan to the rebels in the neighboring Congo, Anya Nya guerrillas showed up in force a fortnight ago at the provincial capital of Wau (see map), tried to storm the army garrison. According to the government, the attack was beaten back and 72 terrorists were killed. Lesser battles were reported in several villages, but it was at Juba, the south's largest city (pop. 40,000), that the war's real fury was felt...
...Fortnight ago, President Sallal established a supreme military council designed to curb Noman's power as civilian Premier. After Noman flew to Cairo to protest directly to Nasser, Sallal threw seven civilian Cabinet ministers into jail. Last week in Cairo, Noman resigned. "It is obvious that Sallal and his cronies are more interested in war than peace," he charged bitterly, and other Arab leaders sadly agreed. As if to prove the point, Sallal lost no time in naming a new Cabinet to replace Noman's. The new lineup: 13 military men, two civilians...
When Luci Baines Johnson celebrated her 18th birthday by entering the Roman Catholic Church a fortnight ago, Father James Montgomery capped the ceremony by pouring water on her forehead and saying: "If you have not been baptized, I baptize you in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit." Luci's conversion turned out to be a baptism of fire as well as of water. Almost immediately, there were angry murmurs of discontent from Episcopal churchmen-not because Luci had left their church,* but because she had been baptized as a baby according to Episcopal rites...
...Saigon. There, according to intelligence reports, as many as four Viet Cong battalions were massing in the dense thicket near Bencat for another devastating attack on government positions along Route 14, a mere 30 miles north of Saigon. In the hope of avoiding a disaster like the one fortnight ago at nearby Dongxoai (rhymes with wrong's why), U.S. planners in Saigon searched for a means to trap the concealed Communist troops by surprise in their jungle hideout. SAC had long been restless to get into the war, and General William C. Westmoreland, commander of U.S. forces in South...
...Fortnight ago, when the Braves beat the Dodgers three games to one in a weekend series, they averaged less than 9,000 spectators in a stadium that holds nearly 45,000. With their noses out of joint because of the Braves' decision to leave, Milwaukee county supervisors last week scorned Owner William Bartholomay's $500,000 offer to let the team blow town, thus dooming the Braves to lame-duck along in the ghostly silence of Milwaukee County Stadium, winning games and whistling Dixie...